Latest How to write a novel Podcast Episodes
Post Lockdown Balance pt 2
Teaching Myself to Write Novels - May 22, 2020 23:00 - 11 minutesPt 2: I'm getting close to a full time workload. The sudden shift has made me reflective and I've learned a lot with just observing my patterns. Sign up for book updates: eepurl.com/g1Zj6b Opening Music: Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3347-airport-...
Post Lockdown Balance
Teaching Myself to Write Novels - May 20, 2020 11:00 - 20 minutesQuarantine madness is getting to me. Today I rant a lot as I try to navigate this writing journey and reincorporate my old life while staying sane. Sign up for book updates: eepurl.com/g1Zj6b Opening Music: Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3347-airpo...
They/Them Pronouns and Other Things
Teaching Myself to Write Novels - May 16, 2020 23:00 - 22 minutesToday I mention The Sand Sea, which can be accessed before June here: storygrid.com/the-sand-sea The YouTube lectures I mention are by Brandon Sanderson and can be found here: youtu.be/-6HOdHEeosc Sign up for book updates: eepurl.com/g1Zj6b Opening Music: Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod Lin...
Guest Episode with Shirley Jump
Teaching Myself to Write Novels - May 13, 2020 04:00 - 48 minutesToday I talk about Goal, Motivation, Conflict, story structure, mentor figures, and more with Shirley Jump. Notes: For updates from Shirley, visit ShirleyJump.com and for more on her classes, visit MargieLawson.com If you'd like one of the tools we mentioned from Shirley, email shirley@shirle...
Writing a Novel is Fluid
Teaching Myself to Write Novels - May 12, 2020 11:00 - 25 minutesToday is a follow up on Ep. 5: I share my revelations and I'm excited about my progress. Maybe a little too excited. (What comes up, you know...) Sign up for book updates: eepurl.com/g1Zj6b Opening Music: Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3347-airport-...
Take Risks & Go Backwards
Teaching Myself to Write Novels - May 11, 2020 11:00 - 26 minutesToday I talk about the fluidity of my writing journey and how it's sometimes ok to go backwards. Sign up for book updates: eepurl.com/g1Zj6b Opening Music: Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3347-airport-lounge License: http://creativecommons.org/licen...
Arcs & Getting Stuck
Teaching Myself to Write Novels - May 08, 2020 18:00 - 23 minutesI had a rough few days! Today I decided to document my process of getting "unstuck." Sign up for book updates: http://eepurl.com/g1Zj6b Opening Music: Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3347-airport-lounge License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
Community & World Building
Teaching Myself to Write Novels - May 06, 2020 11:00 - 31 minutesToday I discuss how social "career writing" can really be. Sign up for book updates: eepurl.com/g1Zj6b Opening Music: Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3347-airport-lounge License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Theme & Story Grid
Teaching Myself to Write Novels - April 29, 2020 19:00 - 21 minutesIn this episode, I discuss Story Grid and finding ways to work theme into your story. Sign up for book updates: eepurl.com/g1Zj6b Opening Music: Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3347-airport-lounge License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4....
Treating Writing Like a Job
Teaching Myself to Write Novels - April 28, 2020 18:00 - 32 minutesToday I discuss jumping into my novel headfirst during quarantine. Sign up for book updates: eepurl.com/g1Zj6b Music: Airport Lounge by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3347-airport-lounge License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Intro to Teaching Myself to Write Novels
Teaching Myself to Write Novels - April 26, 2020 20:00 - 2 minutesJoin me, Briauna, along my journey of writing my first novel. I'll share resources I find useful, my ups and downs, my revelations, and I'll try to get better at this podcast thing along the way. My episodes are mostly unfiltered and recorded as I discover and realize new things. Sign up for upda...
Playing on All 88 Keys: Phillip Lopate, Part 2
Behind the Prose - October 16, 2018 09:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWhat writing advice can one mine from a two-hour interview with prolific essayist, author, and professor Philip Lopate? If you read the July 2018 issue of The Writer, you learned about Lopate's overall approach and philosophy in "Playing on all 88 keys: The prose playbook of Phillip Lopate" who ...
Episode 49: Playing on all 88 keys with Phillip Lopate
Behind the Prose - August 20, 2018 19:30 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsYou might recognize the title of this podcast if you picked up the July 2018 issue of The Writer. In it, you'll find my article on my former grad school writing teacher Phillip Lopate. I interviewed Lopate last December about his career and in the next two episodes, I'm sharing some of our cha...
Episode 48: Engineering the short story with author (and engineer) Nick Arvin
Behind the Prose - January 05, 2018 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn April 2017, I invited author and engineer Nick Arvin to the school where I work. Over two days, he gave several talks on writing, and I recorded one of them: “Nick Arvin and The Short Story.” In this episode, I'm giving you that recording! Nick discusses his short story “Along the Highways.”...
Episode 47: The Novel, the Novella, and Scott Alexander Hess
Behind the Prose - November 27, 2017 23:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWelcome to this special episode of Behind the Prose. Special, because I bet you didn't think it was coming! More special, because it features former guest, literary historical fiction writer and fellow New School Creative Writing MFA Grad Scott Alexander Hess. This time, I talk to him about how h...
Episode 46: Memoirists Mandy Len Catron and Bob Brody
Behind the Prose - June 27, 2017 23:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsToday's episode is brought to you by: coincidence. It's how I met both of these great writers. Last year, I covered Bob Brody's essay panel at the American Society of Journalists and Authors for The Writer Magazine. His book Playing Catch with Strangers came out on Father's Day this June on Heli...
Episode 45: A discussion with humor writer Adam Rotstein
Behind the Prose - May 15, 2017 03:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsHey Prosers, I know. I know. Let's not talk about that lil' missing in action thing. The important thing is that I'm here now and so are you! This episode features a humor writer that I discovered earlier this year on McSweeney's. Adam Rotstein has an undergraduate degree in - get this - neuro...
Episode 44: Geeta Kothari, author of "I Brake For Moose"
Behind the Prose - March 13, 2017 01:30 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode, I talk to Geeta Kothari, an English professor and author of the new short story collection I Brake For Moose, out now on Braddock Avenue Books.
Episode 43: Gilli Messer shares how she landed her first clip on McSweeney's
Behind the Prose - March 01, 2017 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode, we’re venturing into the land of humor. I discovered actress, singer, and writer Gilli Messer during my daily reading. I loved her piece on McSweeney’s: "Young Couple Shares Vows Amidst State Sponsored Chaos." Listen to learn how she landed her first clip on a major humor site ...
Episode 42: From the page to the stage with writer Alyssa Sorresso
Behind the Prose - February 19, 2017 03:30 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsI met Alyssa Sorresso at the Creative Nonfiction Writer’s Conference in 2015 (not 2014 as I think I said in the podcast). Alyssa’s essay had just been published in Creative Nonfiction, and she approached me after the magazine’s founder and the “Godfather of Creative Nonfiction” Lee Gutkind announ...
Episode 41: How to be an editor with Plume's Kate Napolitano
Behind the Prose - February 08, 2017 15:30 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsPlume Senior Editor Kate Napolitano recorded this in October 2016, right before my schedule went to hell in a Coach bag, but I'm happy to finally share it with you. A graduate of The College of New Jersey, Kate's got a girl-next-door vibe and she gives us an honest look at working your way up the...
Get your book life right w/Liz Pryor: Writing advice from the life advice guru
Behind the Prose - September 03, 2016 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsLiz Pryor, author of the new memoir Look At You Now, kicks off season two of Behind the Prose. In this episode, I interview Liz with one of my new interns, associate producer and co-host Sarah Lorish. If you don't feel like you can write a book and get it published after you listen to this, then ...
Write This Way: Find and Develop a Niche in Your Writing - LIVE from CNFWC 2016
Behind the Prose - May 29, 2016 18:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWrite This Way: How to Find and Develop a Niche in Your Writing, A Roundtable Discussion Writers are an eclectic group of people and often have a range of interests. This roundtable discussion, moderated by Keysha Whitaker, explores whether writers should clarify and narrow their interests to de...
Ask an Editor Panel moderated by Ellen Ayoob live from CNFWC 2016
Behind the Prose - May 28, 2016 18:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsAsk an Editor Panel moderated by In Fact Books Associate Publisher, Ellen Ayoob. The panel features Hattie Fletcher, Creative Nonfiction’s own managing editor, and editors Jessica Bylander and Geeta Kothari. Get an insider’s view—our panel of editors answers your questions about the revision and...
Structure for Longform Nonfiction presented by Lee Gutkind - LIVE from CNFWC '16
Behind the Prose - May 27, 2016 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsLast year Creative Nonfiction Magazine and Behind the Prose teamed up to bring you special excerpts from the amazing 2016 Creative Nonfiction Writers’ Conference (CNFWC). (Remember Lee Gutkind’s feature panel on how Law and Order teaches story structure to creative nonfiction writers?) This yea...
Episode 36: Erik Deckers and The House That Jack Built (Kerouac, that is)
Behind the Prose - May 18, 2016 01:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsInterviews with Erik Deckers, humor writer, author, and resident #60 of The Kerouac ProjectGeoff Binge of The Kerouac Project
Episode 35: Salon editor Kim Brooks discusses her debut novel The Houseguest
Behind the Prose - April 12, 2016 00:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIf you’ve ever wondered how to write an alternating point-of-view historical novel with prose that wields similes like samurai swords, then Kim Brooks’ second appearance on Behind the Prose is for you. Brooks graces the virtual studio a second time to discuss her debut novel The Houseguest, out ...
Episode 34: Elana Rabinowitz talks bylines in The New York Times and more
Behind the Prose - April 01, 2016 02:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFor full show details, visit www.behindtheprose.com
Episode 33: Jacki Skole merges memoir and investigative journalism in new book
Behind the Prose - February 29, 2016 21:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFor full show page, visit www.behindtheprose.com Jacki Skole is an award-winning journalist and adjunct professor of communication. She launched her journalism career at CNN, first as a news writer, then as a producer in the network’s documentary unit; she’s also produced programs for Animal Pl...
Episode 32: Salon editor Kim Brooks goes behind the prose of “Life” essays
Behind the Prose - January 30, 2016 05:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsKim Brooks is the new personal essays editor at Salon, a baton passed on to her from Sarah Hepola. I met Kim (virtually) after I interviewed Sharisse Tracey who had an essay published in Salon. Oh, and by the way, Sharisse Tracey just had another piece published on Yahoo! Parenting - "Why I Moved...
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